Eddie Pepperell: fun guy, serious player

Pepperell dropped his club while playing out of the deep rough on the 2ndDAVID CANNON/GETTY IMAGES

Eddie Pepperell does not do sporting norms. He is already a top-50 player but invariably sidesteps the bleached quote and PR banality. Asked about his lack of cap sponsors after setting the clubhouse lead at the British Masters, he said he has tried to drop a few company names during interviews. “The Ann Summers one has not come off yet.”

He is more than just knockabout fun, though. Treading what he terms “a nice path” towards the golfing elite, his round of 69 took him to eight under par on a day when the Moliwood juggernaut slowed. Yet there was no wistfulness from Pepperell about what might have been for him at the Ryder Cup or any bullish statements about targeting America. “I have no…

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